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    Brilliant as the Sun

    By Willy Thorn

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    It is a story almost totally lost in the west. For more than 5o years, the nation known as Burma - and then Myanmar - was hidden behind a bamboo curtain of isolation, oppression, violence & destruction. Along the way, it crumbled & deteriorated into arguably the world’s least developed nation.

    This play follows much of that path thru 57 scenes, in five acts.

    ... from the pre-World War II era
    in the days of colonial British occupation

    ... & the nation’s plight
    thru the Imperialist Japanese Invasion

    ... to the cowardly, greedy, near-sighted
    & treacherous assassination
    of the great hero
    Aung San

    It explores the fledgling, confused
    & often inept
    attempts at nation building
    by the Buddhist savant U Nu

    ... & ventures thru near constant ethnic
    & tribal nationalist
    uprisings

    ... into student rebellions
    & factory worker & labor strikes
    & Buddhist rallies

    ... & finally, plunges deep into the terror
    & the madness
    which became the spirit
    of the era

    ... under the brutal
    & violent despot General Ne Win

    ... the man who was ‘Brilliant as the Sun’

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilly Thorn
    Release dateJul 16, 2020
    ISBN9781005154899
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    Brilliant as the Sun
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    Willy Thorn

    Willy Thorn is a communications expert & artistic renaissance man. He is a journalist & copywriter, teacher, author & artist.He has lived many places, beginning with Milwaukee & Rome & Minnesota & central Wisconsin. Among his other homes are Washington DC & Baltimore, Chicago & the Twin Cities, St. Francis South Dakota, the Bay Area & Shanghai. He currently lives & works in Bangkok.Thorn has a Masters Degree in Journalism & has spent time as a Capitol Hill reporter & wire editor, sports writer, political columnist & arts critic. Other media endeavors include public relations campaigns, magazine feature writing, ghostwritten biographies & time on the radio – as a DJ & on-air host, play-by-play sports announcer & music promoter.He has spent nearly a decade as a language specialist for Craft Worldwide & as a copywriter & creative for McCann Worldgroup. He currently works as senior copywriter at Quo Global branding agency in Bangkok.He has won awards at Cannes Lions & been recognized for sports writing & political columns, magazine features, theatre scripts, religious publications & photography.Thorn is also a photographer & classical oil painter, trained thru the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC. His artistic c.v. includes photography gallery shows; sculpting in Mamallapuram, India; concrete statuary at Wat Xieng Mouane, in Luang Prabang, Laos; and flower petal mosaics in Cagli, Italy.He is a Buddhist meditation instructor; trained thru Thailand’s renowned Willpower Institute. And he was even the rare foreigner to complete the entire six month course in spoken & written Thai. He currently sits as an advisor on the institute’s English Foreign Language subcommittee – where he translates books, helps develop outreach programs & occasionally lectures.He is the author of more than 3o full-length books & plays & proudly notes a Master’s Degree from Marquette University & books in both Washington's Library of Congress & the Vatican Archives in Rome.His catalog is varied & he has written extensively about a number of subjects — including sports, politics, religion, Buddhist philosophy & Asian history & art. One of his largest endeavors was documenting & cataloguing several hundred temples in Bangkok, Ayutthaya, Yangon, Vientiane & Kuala Lumpur.His catalog is available thru the following distributors: Amazon // Apple iBooks // Android Aldiko // Barnes & Noble // Sony // & Smashwords.His Milwaukee-centric column of sports poetry & prose — 'Run of tha Mil' — can be found at Milticket.blogspot.com

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